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Previous events

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AQRiE April 2024 Seminar ─ Quantitative Ethnography: Human Science in the Age of Big Data

23 April 2024 | 12:00-1:00pm | CL 5.11 & Zoom | Speaker: Professor David Shaffer, University of Wisconsin-Madison

AQRiE March 2024 Webinar ─ Do you like school? Social class, gender, ethnicity and pupils

20 March 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm | Zoom | Speaker: Dr Sarah Stopforth, University of York

AQRiE Jan 2024 Seminar ─ The role of exposure to neighborhood and school poverty in understanding educational attainment.

23 January 2024 | 12:30-1:30pm | CL 3.04 and Zoom | Speaker: Dr Jaap Nieuwenhuis, University of Groningen

AQRiE Dec 2023 Seminar ─ Investigating the relationship between research income and research excellence in education: Evidence from the REF2021-UoA23 data

12 December 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm | CL 4.20 and Zoom| Speaker: Professor Ellen Boeren, University of Glasgow

AQRiE Nov 2023 webinar ─ Social inequality in political interest: What can schools do to remedy the gap?

14 November 2023 | 1:00-2:00pm | Zoom | Speaker: Professor Jan Germen Janmaat, UCL Institute of Education

AQRiE Data and Methods Talks Series ─ Modelling the interdependency of networks and place for the provision of social support

7 November 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm | CL 3.04 and Zoom | Speaker: Paul Schuler, University of Edinburgh

AQRiE Oct 2023 Webinar ─ Over Thirty Years of Analysing Educational Data: Reflections on some lessons that I have learned

17 October 2023 | 1:00-2:00pm | Zoom | Speaker: Professor Vernon Gayle, University of Edinburgh

European Research Network on Transitions in Youth (TiY) Workshop

6-8 September 2023 | Project Room, 50 George Square | Keynote speaker: Professor Adam Gamoran, President of the William T. Grant Foundation

AQRiE June 2023 Hybrid Seminar ─ Socioeconomic differences in teacher predicted vs. student achieved grades for ‎university admission

21 June 2023 | 1:00-2:00pm | PL 1.26 and Zoom | Speaker: Professor George Leckie, University of Bristol

AQRiE May 2023 Hybrid Seminar ─ Inequality and class divides in parental transfers to young adults in the United States

16 May 2023 | 1:15-2:15pm | CL 5.11 and Zoom | Speaker: Dr Ginevra Floridi, University of Edinburgh

AQRiE April 2023 Webinar ─ The long road to university? School social composition and the transition to higher education in Ireland

18 April 2023 | 1:00-2:00pm | MS Teams | Speaker: Professor Emer Smyth, Research Professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin

AQRiE Feb 2023 Seminar ─ Understanding social inequalities in creative occupations: Social mobility, education and downward mobility

17 February 2023 | 1:00-2:00pm | CL 5.11 and Zoom | Speaker: Dr Orian Brook, University of Edinburgh

AQRiE December Seminar ─ Primary and secondary school students' career aspirations and automation-related risks

6 December 2022 | 1:00-2:00pm | MS Teams | Speaker: Stephen Sowa, University of Edinburgh

AQRiE workshop: ‘Introduction to R’

23 and 29 November, 7 December 2023 | 2:00-4:00pm | PL G.06 | Trainer: Kaley Lesperance

AQRiE October Seminar ─ The stark realities of transparent and reproducible statistically orientated social science research

19 October 2022 | 1:00-2:00pm | Speaker: Dr Roxanne Connelly, University of Edinburgh

Adverse (and Positive!) Childhood Experiences in Scottish children: what can we learn from a current birth cohort study?

31 May 2022 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Online | Presenter: Dr Louise Marryat, University of Dundee

Improving the use of research evidence by policy makers and practitioners

26 May 2022 | 10:30am-12:00pm | PL G21 and MS Teams | Speaker: Professor Adam Gamoran, William T. Grant Foundation

From gender equality to household earnings equality: The role of women’s labour market outcomes across OECD Countries

3 May 2022 | 1:00-2:00pm | Online | Professor Richard Breen, University of Oxford

AQRiE Hub Seminar Series ─ Employability after a Quantitative PhD

8 April 2022 | 10:00-11:00am | Speakers: Alice Dias Lopes, Dafni Dima and Carla Cebula

Family inequalities, residential mobility and child outcome

5 April 2022 | 1:00-2:00pm | Online | Speaker: Dr Francesca Fiori, University of St Andrews

AQRiE Hub Workshop ─ Dos and Do nots of writing a quantitative article for publication

11 March 2022 | 10:00-11:00 | PL G.21 | Speaker: Professor Colm Harmon

Subject choice and family background under the Curriculum for Excellence

8 February 2022 | 1:00-2:00pm | Online | Dr Marina Shapira, University of Stirling

The impact of university re-opening on Covid-19 cases in Scotland

11 January 2022 | 1:00-2:00pm | Online | Speaker: Dr Mirko Moro, University of Stirling

Does ability grouping affect UK primary school pupils’ enjoyment of Maths and English?

7 December 2021 | 1:00-2:00pm | Online | Speaker: Dr Queralt Capsada Munsech, University of Glasgow

AQRiE Seminar ─ Using sibling data and multilevel modelling to analyse social inequalities in higher education and beyond

9 November 2021 | 1:00-2:00pm | Online | Speakers: Dr Cristina Ianelli and Dr Adriana Duta, University of Edinburgh

Can mixed method social network analyses help to map teachers’ online communities?

16 June 2021 | 12:30-1:30pm | Online | Speaker: Barbara Dzieciatko, University of Edinburgh

Re-reading cultural capital and the relationship between social class and GCSE attainment

21 April 2021 | 12:30-1:30pm | Online | Speaker: Professor Vernon Gayle, University of Edinburgh

Using computational social network models to study teacher turnover

24 March 2021 | 12:30-1:30pm | Online | Speaker: Marc Sarazin, Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Edinburgh

Regression Discontinuity: Overview and example looking at health impact of grammar schooling

24 February 2021 | 12:30-1:30pm | Online | Speaker: Frank Popham, University of Edinburgh